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What is this?

I’m Ashby deButts, a fourth-year medical student in the US applying to internal medicine residency positions in the 2024 NRMP.

During medical school I’ve taken notes with a program called Obsidian, which enables linking some of my thoughts together into a web that can sometimes show unexpected connections or trends.

Through the magic of community-sourced plugins I can take a few of my notes and make them available to anybody who cares to read them, and that’s what I’ve done on this website! This is in part an effort to learn in public and reinforce my own knowledge by explaining it to myself, but I hope you learn something while you’re here too

What to expect

  • Mistakes and errors, hopefully with corrections. I try to be evidence-based and cite sources, but these are my notes and not a highly-vetted resource.
  • Shallow-to-deep dives into things like human physiology, the pathophysiology underlying disease, and modern American healthcare.
  • Erratic updates.

Where to now?

Why don’t you check out what I’ve written about: